Evidence of fire use of late Pleistocene humans from the Huanglong Cave, Hubei Province, China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 256-264

  Liu, Wu ^a   Wu, Xian Zhu ^b,c   Li, Yi Yin ^d   Deng, Cheng Long ^e   Wu, Xiu Jie ^a   Pei, Shuwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^c CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Fire use; Huanglong Cave; Hubei; Human behavior; Late Pleistocene; Yunxi

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 59849109064     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0469-0     Document Type: Article

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